Vernon Van Duke Duncan was a Major League Baseball

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 outfielder

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. He began his major league career late in the season with the Philadelphia Phillies

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, then jumped to the new Federal League

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 during the offseason. He spent the next two seasons as a starting outfielder for the Baltimore Terrapins

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, playing mostly as a center fielder

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. Although he continued to play professionally in the minor leagues until , Duncan never played in the majors again.

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